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My Life Through Creativity

Thank you for visiting literophanes.com. Since I was a kid, I've always found myself immersed in creativity be it writing, painting, drawing, music or theater. This blog is an evolving experiment in the creative transmutation process. While that sounds like a mouthful, my mission is a simple one; it is to provoke you to think about capturing or seeing life through creativity.

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Into the Wind

Inherited eyes keen to recognize the insensitivity of a barren, West Texas landscape in the heat of summer

A once stoic, authoritative, swaggering rock was now crumbling soil

When winds slowly picked away layer after layer of his countenance

I ran with cupped hands to retrieve what the wind stole – if only to delay the inevitable a little while longer

In a geology of generations, machismo, traditions, ideas born to the uneducated child of an overbearing mother, each brittle layer was stolen by a new wind while escaping grains nestled themselves between the needles of saguaros

As shadows encircled above, his stride was slow, his posture hunched

Every windward step taxed his body

The protector who once held my hand to cross the creek bed, I now protected him

The provider who was always there for me, I was now there for him

I turned to block him from the wind and sky and looked into his surrendering eyes

He looked back into mine

Just then I felt the wind penetrate my enlarging pores

Before we turned our eyes into the wind

I grabbed at that moment anticipating the indifferent gust that would diminish it to dust